Overview

As you read in Chapter 4 of The Mismeasure of Crime (attached),several forms of self-report studies are reviewed. One of those studiesincluded the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program, which wasestablished by the National Institute of Justice to monitor drug useamong arrestees in many jurisdictions of the United States. According tothe authors, one of the main benefits of self-report studies inresearch is as a source of information provided by individuals based ontheir behavior, unfiltered by any official or judicial process. Thisself-study process was developed in an effort to counteract what wereconsidered systematic biases and distortions in the data collected aboutcrime from official measures. The ADAM study was based on datacollected by interviewers interviewing arrestees who had been jailed orbooked less than 48 hours for various drug offenses. This study fitsinto the self-report category because its subjects are focused in agroup that was geared to provide more targeted information based ontheir known drug use.

For this assignment, you will access the2008 ADAM II Annual Report, (attached). Select one illicit drug (forexample, marijuana) for your research and respond following theinstructions below.

Instructions

• Analyze differences in the use of this drug across the 10 cities in the ADAM report, based on your research of the ADAM study.
• Explain why the rates of use of the particular substance selected are higher or lower in some cities as compared to others.
• Specify what methodology was used to study the validity of self-reported drug consumption from ADAM studies.
• Explore some of the important effects of under-reporting.

Requirements

• Written communication: Must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Resources and citations: Format according to APA guidelines.
• Required page count: 3–5, not including the cover page or the references page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.